[CPEO-BIF] Downhill from Emerson Power Transmission, Ithaca, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC proposes excavating Spencer St. sewer line in Ithaca

Emerson plan to be discussed Thursday

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal (NY)
June 15, 2010

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released a 
proposed cleanup plan for part of the neighborhood downhill from Emerson 
Power Transmission ...

According to the DEC, the estimated $1.14 million remedy to clean up 
toxic contamination in the neighborhood north of Emerson would involve:

* Removing and replacing approximately 300 feet of sanitary sewer line 
on East Spencer Street, starting at Turner Place and moving southwest 
toward Cayuga Street.

* Installing "slotted or perforated pipe to passively vent soil vapor 
that re-enters the sewer trench."

* Continuing maintenance of vapor mitigation systems installed in homes 
with toxic contamination. This strategy includes required testing of any 
new buildings, existing buildings that undergo "a significant change in 
use," and vacant buildings that become occupied.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20100615/NEWS01/6150376/1126/NEWS/DEC+proposes+excavating+Spencer+St.+sewer+line+in+Ithaca

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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